BrowseSafe Partners With Universal Content Inc. (UCI) to Distribute PlanetGood Family Safe Browser
PlanetGood Now Available to More Customers Through UCI's Online Catalog
INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1999--BrowseSafe.com, Inc. (OTC BB: PGPG), a premier service provider of PlanetGood software which offers families safety, freedom and choice while browsing the Internet, announced today that Universal Content Inc. (UCI), an international reseller supplier of CD-ROMs and various on-line multimedia products, will be making BrowseSafe's PlanetGood available through UCI's on-line catalog (http://www.universalcontent.com).
Through licensing agreements with UCI, telecommunication firms, book and magazine publishers, promotional houses and other resellers can now bundle PlanetGood with the products they offer to their customers. BrowseSafe.com is now able to offer PlanetGood to an extended group of end-users through UCI's numerous clients which include telecommunication firms and magazine publishers. Telecommunication firms, for example, can obtain PlanetGood through UCI, along with other UCI services such as CD-ROM, DVD and web-ready content, and distribute the product to their customers. Also, through UCI, book and magazine publishers can bundle PlanetGood with their publications and offer it to their subscribers.
"Having PlanetGood bundled by Universal Content represents a unique and strategic opportunity for BrowseSafe," said Mark Smith, CEO and founder of BrowseSafe. "With PlanetGood, we have the best family-safe Web browser available that allows parents and children to experience the benefits of the Internet without being subjected to objectionable and offensive online materials. Universal Content has an outstanding reputation in the software bundling industry and by working with them, we are able to offer the value of PlanetGood to an expanding list of publishers, distributors and customers."
About Universal Content Inc.
Universal Content Inc. (UCI) is an international supplier of software titles and other content. Based in Toronto, Canada, UCI is part of the Networks North Inc. group (NASDAQ: NETN), which includes interactive television, video distribution, MPEG digitization and book and software distribution companies.
About BrowseSafe
Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, BrowseSafe.com was founded in the spring of 1998. The initial charter of the company was to develop a product that offers parents freedom from worry about what their children are exposed to on the Internet, while providing access to all this good on the Web. In order to accomplish this, BrowseSafe.com physically reviews and categorizes every single Web site, allowing parents to control the access to the content they want for their children. The result of this ongoing effort is PlanetGood, which comes with three levels of Internet browsing for kids, teens and parents.
BrowseSafe.com does not believe in government censorship as they feel that parents should be the ultimate decision-makers of the kinds of information they and their family members should be able to access on the Internet. BrowseSafe has also formed partnerships with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Netscape, which is owned by America Online (NYSE: AOL), to distribute Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator with PlanetGood. Along with providing a customized Microsoft and Netscape browser, PlanetGood has been re-tooled with a variety of new features - most recently a Parental Preview system that allows parents to preview sites that have not yet been reviewed, and then determine if they would like to allow it for their child.
PlanetGood is sold, direct to schools and libraries or as an additional service available from ISPs or directly from their web site at browsesafe.com.
BrowseSafe, PlanetGood, PlanetWow, PlanetCool, and PlanetHome are registered trademarks of BrowseSafe.com, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Certain information included in this communication (as well as information included in oral statements made by BrowseSafe.com) contains statements that are forward looking, such as statements relating to further anticipated direction of Internet industry, plans for further expansion, various business development activities, planned capital expenditures, funding resources, anticipated sales growth and potential contracts. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual operations or results to differ materially from those anticipated.
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